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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
🔴New Covid rules on self-isolation are set to last until March.

Tory MPs have warned Boris Johnson that restricting freedoms was a path "towards hell"

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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
🔴The regulations forcing people to isolate for 10 days if they come into contact with someone who has the omicron variant - even if they are fully vaccinated - will not expire until March 24
🔴The measure prompted a major revolt of 33 Tory MPs, including former Conservative cabinet ministers Greg Clark, Jeremy Wright and Esther McVey
Tory MPs warned the self-isolation rules could lead to a new "pingdemic" that could result in healthy people being fined if they leave their homes.

🔎Read the full report here 👇

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🚨 BREAKING: The Duchess of Sussex has won a Court of Appeal challenge against the publisher of The Mail On Sunday over the publication of a personal letter to her estranged father, Thomas Markle

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1 Dec
🔴Britain has bought enough vaccines for two more boosters per person, under a deal to provide 114 million more jabs that can be modified against new variants.

The deal with Moderna and Pfizer, covers two more years.

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💉The Health and Social Care Secretary said a new deal for 114 million doses of Moderna and Pfizer in 2022 and 2023 would help to protect the public “for years to come”.

The deal includes 60M doses of the Moderna vaccine and 54M Pfizer/BioNTech doses
Officials said the Government already had enough supply of both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech for the current booster programme.

🦠The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were preferred to AstraZeneca because they are mRNA jabs that are thought to adapt better to variants
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1 Dec
🎤Why is Adele playing Las Vegas? Some might say it is where she belongs, but not the rock old guard, writes @neil_mccormick

“That's something I've been trying to avoid my whole life,” Paul McCartney said last year.

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🗣️“Vegas is where you go to die, isn't it? It's the elephant's graveyard.” Mick Jagger has said.

“I couldn’t bear to end up as an Elvis Presley and sing in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags,” he sneered. “It’s really sick”
"It is true that Adele writes her own songs and invests them with a raw confessional intensity rooted in a sensitive singer-songwriter genre that might seem far removed from the superficial glitz and neon of Las Vegas.

✍️"But times change, and Vegas has had to adapt"
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1 Dec
🏆The Duke of Edinburgh Award was founded 65 years ago and now operates in over 130 countries around the world.

Former participants recall the day they met the Duke of Edinburgh and the profound impact the award scheme had on their lives

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🗣️“When [the Duke] talked to me, he was genuinely interested in what I had to say,” says Rachel Barton, who received her Gold Award in 2000.

“It wasn’t like this was a process for him that he had to hurry through – there was no rush for him”
💬“When my mum – who had completed the award 20 years previously – was talking, he was focused on her,” Barton says.

“I firmly believe in this award,” she says. “It really does help you grow as a person”
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1 Dec
🤖The world's first living robots, designed by computer and built from stem cells, have started to reproduce in a breakthrough which could lead to self-replicating machines, scientists have said

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🔬In 2020, US researchers programmed a supercomputer to come up with blueprints for entirely new organisms using virtual skin and heart cells, which they then built in real life

🦠The microscopic animal-machine hybrids, dubbed "xenobots" were able to remain "alive" for weeks powered by their embryonic energy stores
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1 Dec
🏙️London has risen up the ranks of most expensive cities as Paris loses its top spot.

💸Britain's capital has become more expensive as prices for household goods, personal care, recreation and transport increase

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🇮🇱The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said that Israel's capital Tel Aviv has overtaken Paris to become the most expensive city in the world.

🇬🇧London has ratcheted up the list to its highest point in at least five years

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📈Britain's capital has become more expensive as prices for household goods, personal care, recreation and transport increase, the organisation said.

It makes London the 17th costliest city in the world
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